Best 108 quotes in «realistic quotes» category

All the genres are so blended nowadays. There are lots of comedies out there that are more realistic than dramas, and some dramas out there that are so broad and wacky that they don't even pass for a broad, wacky comedy.

But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are in no sense works of art): they must persist as objects of contemplation.

Any time I'm on-screen it is realistic because I don't pull my punches or anything like that.

Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.

Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done.

Don't front, don't put something out there that you feel isn't realistic and doesn't portray who you are. Just be yourself, be you, and don't be afraid to speak your mind.

But while I'm realistic about our challenges, I'm optimistic about our future. There are a few things, and if we do them, we're going to have the greatest era in our history. And I have detailed what those things are specifically.

God is the true realistic point where human reason mostly, if not completely, breaks down.

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

Goals have to be realistic and flexible.

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

If I had to choose, I would never take my shirt off again in a movie, but I guess that's not very realistic. I certainly won't be asking to do it, though.

I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.

I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.

I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.

I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful; rather, it was emotionally realistic.

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

I try to be realistic, listen to my body and know when to slow down.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

Only by advocating 'politically unrealistic' CO2 concentrations can runaway global warming be avoided. But what is politically realistic for humans is whollymunrelated to what is physically realistic for the planet.

Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.

Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.

So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.

Steve has a reality distortion field.” When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. “In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he’s not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project's outcome; it is to determine whether a project's targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them.

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.

There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing.

The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.

When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

To put more American personnel in harm's way without a realistic chance for success is something I'm not in favor of. And a realistic chance for success depends upon having the Iraqis with the will and the ability to fulfill their share of the bargain, and so far they have not.

You can't predict tomorrow. And because you can't predict tomorrow, you have to be realistic with what you have today. It doesn't mean don't enjoy yourself but enjoy yourself at the right time.

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.